Thomas Hardy: 431 books

A Laodicean is a romance classic written by Thomas Hardy and first published in 1881. Paula Power inherits a medieval castle from her industrialist father who has purchased it from the aristocratic De Stancy family. She employs two architects, one local and one, George Somerset, newly qualified from...

A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. On a stormy winter night, a stranger knocks at the door of a shepherd’s cottage. He is cold and hungry, and wants to get out of the rain. He is welcomed inside, but he does not give his name or his business....

Grace Melbury, daughter of a rich local wood-trader, has been raised beyond her family through years of expensive education. Coming home, she finds herself pulled between her love for her childhood friend Giles Winterborne, and the allure of the enigmatic Doctor Fitzpiers. Giles and Edgar have their...

This delightful collection of verse from Thomas Hardy, a poet and novelist who penned the books Far From the Madding Crowd and Jude the Obscure, highlights a master at the height of his powers. Topics broached include nostalgic looks back at childhood, profound and nuanced poems of love, and even a few poems that address scientific discoveries of the day, including Einstein's theories.

This classic collection of Thomas Hardy poems contains A CHRISTMAS GHOST-STORY, THE DEAD DRUMMER, A WIFE IN LONDON and THE SOULS OF THE SLAIN

"Desperate Remedies" – A young woman, Cytherea Graye, is forced by poverty to accept a post as lady's maid to the eccentric Miss Aldclyffe, the woman whom her father had loved but had been unable to marry. Cytherea loves a young architect, Edward Springrove, but Miss Adclyffe's machinations,...

A collection of stories by Thomas Hardy.

"The Three Strangers" is a short story by Thomas Hardy from 1883. The story is a pastoral history told by an omniscient narrator more than 50 years after the event. The sheep-stealer is a kind of folk hero who stole to survive and escaped by outsmarting his hangman.

"Tess of the D'Urbervilles" contains a simplified edition of the book with the same title by the famous author Thomas Hardy. Tess, the humble daughter of a simple man, experiences the most dreadful things which can ever happen to a woman. Her struggles with the rotten world which...

Una delle caratteristiche principali dell’arte narrativa di Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) è quella di ridurre i più ardui problemi dello spirito a poche idee forti ed elementari. I cinque racconti compresi in questa raccolta, La tragedia di due ambizioni, Il veto del figlio, Per sua moglie, L’Ussaro...

British literary tradition is very rich. It unites the heritage of its own classics, such as medieval and Shakespeare productions, as well as the cultural influences of the various colonies and peoples who, throughout history, have mixed into British imagination. The critic August Nemo brings an excerpt...

De mooie Margareta, een onbekommerd melkmeisje op het Engelse platteland, bewijst een buitenlandse baron een grote dienst. Als beloning mag zij hem vragen wat ze wil. Dat loopt niet onmiddellijk goed af... Dit is de negentiende-eeuwse (en vooralsnog enige) Nederlandse vertaling van The Romantic...

I racconti qui proposti, in un linguaggio asciutto e con tecniche narrative quasi cinematografiche, mostrano tutte le caratteristiche originali, vitali e umanamente contraddittorie, di uno dei più importanti scrittori inglesi di sempre. Thomas Hardy, profondamente immerso nelle tradizioni e nell’eredità...

Edgar Allan Poe e Thomas Hardy devono la loro fama imperitura alle loro opere narrative. Nondimeno furono anche poeti sublimi, capaci con i loro versi, spesso struggenti e desolati, di influenzare intere generazioni di poeti e di giungere sino a noi senza perdere nulla del loro incanto. In questa...